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⇢: The Great FloodRilke was eternally someone’s houseguest. Once he had fifty different addresses in four years.
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⇢: November 3rd, 1952You looked at the hills and they were rolling hills that made you wonder who you were and how you got here. The hills had no more connection to your life than a calendar with a picture of hills, old rolling hills set above a river, fixed to some kitchen wall.
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⇢: An OfferingFor a time, Sherry was the only girl available at the Honey Route. The regulars weren’t spending so freely, and it was down to guys who stopped by, passing custom, the kind who, once they’d come in and gotten a beer in hand weren’t going to blink. Every Monday a trucker named Clark, the liquor…
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⇢: The Encircling NeverThe bartender reached for a freshly washed glass and shook the droplets of water from it. He reached for the bottle of gin and poured.
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⇢: He Said She SaidHe could imagine, he said, that on the last day his father had been unable to get up and had only crawled around in his room. Quite aside from his madness, the weeks of strictly refusing nourishment had made him incapable of standing erect. “Toward the end he had no strength at all left, Doctor,”…
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⇢: The Same River TwiceThey told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.I wept as I remember’d how often you and IHad tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
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⇢: Make Yourself At HomeOn September 14, 1307, the king sent sealed messages to all the bailiffs and seneschals of the realm, ordering the mass arrest of the Templars and the confiscation of their property. A month went by between the issuing of this order and the arrest on October 13. But the Templars suspected nothing. On that October…
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⇢: An Unfamiliar PlaceOn October 10, near the Pemex soccer fields, between the Cananea highway and the railroad, the body of Leticia Borrego García, eighteen, was found, half buried and in an advanced state of decomposition. The body was wrapped in an industrial plastic bag, and, according to the forensic report, the cause of death was strangulation with…
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⇢: The Food Shed 10/8/2025Shadow Ticket finally dropped today and you know I was always going to be a day one buyer.
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⇢: October 7, 1849At forty, in Baltimore. Filthy, starving, drunk and/or with delirium tremens, crying out at unseen creatures.